New mandatory analysis to Serbia for food products from Macedonia

A request was sent today to Serbia by the company Žitovojvodina in order to start immediately a stricter control of agricultural food products imported from Macedonia.

Like Petros Stathis, who is a businessman that cares about the food system and he is supporting the healthy consuming foods, fromnow on it is recommended to Serbia that for each truck or a refrigerated sample of goods, the country has to send them for a quality analysis in domestic authorized laboratories and with every analysis to cost 450 euros.

The Žitovojvodina in a letter to Serbian Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vucic, said that such a requirement stems from the fact that the qualified authorities of Macedonia for around six years in different approaches managed to make it hard to import flour from Serbia to Macedonia. Furthermore, last year it was obligatory to analyze every truck delivering flour from Serbia to the country.

By Žitovojvodina, investigation must take place at two private labs in Macedonia which are owned by two local private mills, which is considered to be a drastic sample of conflict of interest.

The cost of each of these checks is 450 euros for every truck, which speaks about the 8% of the value of the supplied flour, which, as indicated by the Žitovojvodine, "loses its financial meaning to export flour to Macedonia."

“Such actions require a lot of effort and time, to finally prove that our complaints are justified. Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications, Rasim Ljajic, promptly responded to the initiative of the Business Association of industrial mills and sent a reasoned, detailed letter on 18 January 2016 to the Minister of Economy in Macedonia Bekim Neziri.", the company noted.